Whatever you do, you need courage.

If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.